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...would still have thought that the Earth is flat if scientists had worried that their ideas might offend somebody,” he said...
There's plenty out there to offend. TV's mores have become looser in just a few years. In 1999 it was shocking for Fox's sitcom Action to use obscenities that were bleeped out. Now the same words are bleeped routinely (often barely) all over network TV--and go unbleeped on basic-cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which...
Although secular, nothing in Tomorrows is likely to offend Kingsbury's regular readers. The story of a male bull rider and a female rodeo rider bears the hallmarks of all Kingsbury's narratives: sympathetic characters facing overwhelming obstacles. "When I first wrote it, [Center Street] called and said, 'We need 80% of the Christian content to come out of it,'" recalls Kingsbury. "Because it's about love, I was O.K. with that. It's really about love that doesn't fail, and that's a I Corinthians 13 message." A message that can be embraced by devotees of the Bible...
...piece served as a restrained counterbalance to the Cornel West story in the Post, which was published exactly one year earlier. Traub cast Summers as a focused, if not slightly overzealous leader who had been explicitly hired by Harvard’s Corporation for his willingness to offend if necessary and his ability to impose the firm hand of governance that his predecessor Neil L. Rudenstine had reportedly been incapable...
...long as Summers continues to offend the sensibilities of his faculty, his remarks—private and public—will continue to make national headlines and drive his reputation even further into the ground...